[LARTC] Routing problem

[Ronny Aasen]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:03, Damion de Soto wrote:
> gaston wrote:
> > Problem:
> > This configuration didn't work. From the clients network (208.53.164.0) I
> > could only reach the Cisco router but was unable to reach Internet. 
> > 
> > The only quick solution was to connect Switch 1 with Switch 2.
> > Any ideas why this didn't work? 
> 
> did you have IP forwarding enabled and the appropriate iptables rules on the linux box ?
> for pure routing:
> 
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
> iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
> iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
> 
> If you already done that, where does a traceroute from the clients' network 
> (208.53.164.0) go ?   does it try to go through 208.53.164.254?
> does it go anywhere after ?


in addition, was the cisco aware that the route to 
208.53.164.0/24 was thru the linux ?

post the routing table from the cisco also.

still good luck
-- 
Ronny Aasen <list@datapart-as.no>